Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary)
Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I want to come in briefly on this. Deputy Tóibín asked why it would take longer to renovate a local authority property than a private tenancy. The simple answer is that under legislation most local authority tenants are granted a lifetime tenancy. For local authority tenants, the period of the tenancy is usually far longer on average than a private tenancy and the amount of renovation required is much more. Typically, the local authority has to replace bathrooms and carry out a deep retrofit. This takes a number of months compared to short tenancy of a year or two, which can be turned round in a number of weeks. That is the simple answer to why a local authority might take months to carry out renovation whereas a private landlord may do so in a number of weeks.
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